And it's about time someone puts the USA in it place..... They don't own the world as much as they like to think otherwise.
You may not like the US for whatever reasons but to express the quoted sentiments indicates the most appalling of attitudes that one can only classify as war mongering and completely bereft of consideration of the death and injury caused to innocents. I really do struggle to find the most miniscule justification for someone articulating the sentiments you have put forward given the gravity of the situation and its very real capacity to escalate and involve many other nations.
As for you emf scenario, a few quotes from the available literature…
“In written testimony delivered to the United States Senate in 2005, an EMP Commission staff member reported:
The EMP Commission sponsored a worldwide survey of foreign scientific and military literature to evaluate the knowledge, and possibly the intentions, of foreign states with respect to electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack. The survey found that the physics of EMP phenomenon and the military potential of EMP attack are widely understood in the international community, as reflected in official and unofficial writings and statements. The survey of open sources over the past decade finds that knowledge about EMP and EMP attack is evidenced in at least Britain, France, Germany, Israel, Egypt, Taiwan, Sweden, Cuba, India, Pakistan, Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Iran, North Korea, China and Russia.
. . .”
“Many foreign analysts–particularly in Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia–view the United States as a potential aggressor that would be willing to use its entire panoply of weapons, including nuclear weapons, in a first strike. They perceive the United States as having contingency plans to make a nuclear EMP attack, and as being willing to execute those plans under a broad range of circumstances.
Russian and Chinese military scientists in open source writings describe the basic principles of nuclear weapons designed specifically to generate an enhanced-EMP effect, that they term "Super-EMP" weapons. "Super-EMP" weapons, according to these foreign open source writings, can destroy even the best protected U.S. military and civilian electronic systems.”
“It has long been known that there are many ways to protect against nuclear EMP (or to quickly begin repairs where protection is not practical); but the United States EMP Commission determined that such protections are almost completely absent in the civilian infrastructure of the United States, and that even large sectors of the United States military services were no longer protected against EMP to the level that they were during the Cold War. The public statements of the physicists and engineers working in the EMP field tend to emphasize the importance of making electronic equipment and electrical components resistant to EMP — and of keeping adequate spare parts on hand, and in the proper location, to enable prompt repairs to be made.”
You might also like to have a read of:
“Report of the Commission to Assess the
Threat to the United States from
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
Critical National Infrastructures
April 2008” …available on the net.
The US have military bases stationed around the world for a reason. They want to be able to neutralize any attack on the US before it gets to US soil. They want the capacity to take retaliatory action well before things get anywhere near their country. Should NK launch a missile in the direction of the US, then the probability is that the US will intercept it some considerable distance before it reaches its target.
If you would like me to address your financial argument in a similar vein, please let me know.
Blue
